Cardinal Vincent Nichols has spoken out about the “great confusion” surrounding gender identity, calling on headteachers to affirm for children the values of family and community rather than individualism and self-determination...

Cardinal Karl Lehmann, who died on Sunday, was appointed Bishop of Mainz in 1983 at the age of 47, the youngest bishop ever appointed in Germany. He served as Bishop of Mainz for 33 years until he retired in 2016. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former Bishop of Hong Kong and an outspoken critic of the current negotiations between the Holy See and the communist Government in Beijing, has made his most categorical warning to date on the danger of reaching an agreement on episcopal appointments that is too favourable to Beijing.

11 March 2018
| by
Carol Glatz, CNS

By truly listening to the penitent during confession, "we listen to Jesus himself, poor and humble; by listening to the Holy Spirit, we put ourselves in attentive obedience, becoming listeners of the Word" in order to know what God wants to be done, said Pope Francis

The Irish government has introduced a bill in parliament which paves the way for a referendum on the country’s abortion laws, likely to be held at the end of May. Voters will be asked if they want to replace the Eighth Amendment with wording that would allow politicians set the country’s abortion laws in the future